The latest World Bank records show that India’s per capita CO2 emissions in the year 2014 were 1.73 tonnes of CO2 per person. A 2017 report by the PBL Netherlands Environmental Assessment Agency had shown that it was 1.80 tonnes of CO2 per person in 2014 and it grew to 1.91 tonnes of CO2 per person in 2016.

Interestingly, while the representatives of the 196 parties to the UN, in a rare consensus have agreed to cap the increase in global temperature to less than 1.5OC at the Accord de Paris, there is an interestingly rarer consensus amongst the scientific community that geoengineering is the way to go.

Hempcrete has been one of the most researched building materials in the recent times. The staggering amount of research literature being published almost every month hold a light to that fact. As a matter of fact, our Indian shores weren't immune to it either. Several entrepreneurs have been taken hostage by the mania and have forayed into the world of hemp. And one of the most talked about hemp products is hempcrete. But is India really ready for it?

GreenJams Infrastructures LLP was incorporated on the 11th of July, 2017, which means, today, we have turned one year old. But today calls for a celebration not because we have turned an year old, but because we held in our hands the result of a year's worth of hard work.We held in our hands today a mature prototype of our brain-child.

It is a bygone conclusion that hempcrete is amazing. In fact, when you consider it, there arguably isn’t any other building material that has enjoyed as much approval in recent times. But if you’re a builder why should you care for this?

Originally published at Entrepreneur India.

It is a racing certainty that businesses have an important role to play in preventing climate change. But businesses are predicated on profits, and not long ago, entrepreneurs considering businesses that incorporate climate solutions were thought to be “hare-brained”. However, things have been changing gradually. Ever since the recent re-emergence of the trillion-dollar crop – hemp, dispositions are starting to look good for both climate and entrepreneurs.

Originally published at Entrepreneur India.

It was just 2 days until deadline when we discovered the Clean Energy Challenge through some friends of ours. A little reading about the challenge, the organisers and supporters got us supremely excited. Not everyday do you get an opportunity to be a part of something that gets supported by the IKEA Foundation and endorsed by the UNFCCC. Not just that, the challenge brief fit our solution so well, there wasn't an option other than applying for it.